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Erich_L

@Nerdzmasterz said: Are you talking assets like these? You can use them in Godot, although the particles won't work.

https://syntystore.com/

Those are cool but I guess I forgot low poly is a style. I will have normal meshes- the low poly part has to be the collision shape. If the collision shape is low poly I'll be happier the more the actual mesh matches the collision shape.

I am enamored with a long elongated half sphere for the ship- could put a lot of configurable equipment on the backside with engines and instead of stairs/elevators going up and down (like a rocket) the length of the ship would have the same up vector- you could walk around side to side w/ no stairs.

Tomcat

@DaveTheCoder said: There's also an attitude among adults that studying is for children, and adult classes should be fun and effortless.

This is because the brain is getting old and less able to absorb new information.

And the secret is simple:

@cybereality said: Well my secret is that I am a life-long learner.

To be able to learn as you age, you must not interrupt your lifelong learning process... but people are usually lazy...

FPS tutorial B)

fire7side

That's what torks me off about people. They want these big houses they can't afford. Fancy clothes. Just basically nothing but they make a big deal about it. They let their bodies go until they are basically useless, and sit in front of a television when they aren't doing some totally redundant job. And they'll criticize you if your house isn't spotless or you aren't mowing your grass enough. Make this huge deal out of it. How annoying. I built my own house which is still unfinished and probably always will be. They make the biggest deal out of that and most of them have never even picked up a hammer.

duane

Audiobellum

So I can across a video on Youtube reassuring everyone that Godot is indeed not a cult. I'm so glad that Godot is not a cult.

Edit: Anyway, what do y'all think about this take on the industry? Can we turn these lemons into lemonade?

duane

Python is running fast(er).

Yeah, I know, if you wanted speed, you wouldn't be using python, but still...

Personally, I prefer lua, but python's huge standard library beats lua's better design every day of the week. It's also nice not to have to explicitly "end" every code block. But lua's tables are so much better than anything python (or gdscript) offers. Code becomes much simpler when you just get null back from accessing a non-existing key. (And, yes, I know how to use .get() -- it's not as good.)

cybereality

That's amazing. Honestly Python is the best language hands down ever created. I do like the simplicity of Lua, but I never used it for anything serious. It just seems a little limited for advanced algorithms. Python is just about perfect. It's complex enough, but not overly so. I used to like C++ but they kind of went off the rails with these esoteric new features no one asked for or wants. C++ is still the best for speed, but it's just not great fun to work with, it's too rigid. I guess that is part of the speed, but it takes so long to code simple stuff. Python is amazing and there are so many libraries, you are not limited. I would have preferred if Godot found a way to use the standard Python, but GDScript is like 90% similar and I understand why they made the choice.

cybereality

@Audiobellum said: So I can across a video on Youtube reassuring everyone that Godot is indeed not a cult. I'm so glad that Godot is not a cult.

Nerdzmasterz

@cybereality said: That's amazing. Honestly Python is the best language hands down ever created. I do like the simplicity of Lua, but I never used it for anything serious. It just seems a little limited for advanced algorithms. Python is just about perfect. It's complex enough, but not overly so. I used to like C++ but they kind of went off the rails with these esoteric new features no one asked for or wants. C++ is still the best for speed, but it's just not great fun to work with, it's too rigid. I guess that is part of the speed, but it takes so long to code simple stuff. Python is amazing and there are so many libraries, you are not limited. I would have preferred if Godot found a way to use the standard Python, but GDScript is like 90% similar and I understand why they made the choice.

Python was intended to be a reliable, very easy-to-use coding language. Fun Fact: would you believe it was not named after a snake, but Monty Python’s Fly Circus, as the one who made it was a big fan of that show?

cybereality

I knew that. Probably because coding in Python is fun, unlike most languages.

fire7side

I don't notice the rabid followers around here. People openly discuss the merits of the other game engines. Godot is a good fit for me personally. I can see why others would use Unity or Unreal or lots of different engines, or maybe just a graphics library.

cybereality

I think it's mostly a Reddit thing. People are chill here and on Twitter.

Nerdzmasterz

@fire7side said: I don't notice the rabid followers around here. People openly discuss the merits of the other game engines. Godot is a good fit for me personally. I can see why others would use Unity or Unreal or lots of different engines, or maybe just a graphics library.

Unity and Unreal are flashy, but their communities aren't as helpful as the one here. :)

cybereality

It's all about the community. I have fun with you people and I have fun with Godot. I used to use Unity for a bit and Unreal for a few years but the community is toxic. I don't care how the graphics look if I hate my life.

Nerdzmasterz

As for graphics, 4.0 was a big leap in the right direction.

fire7side

@cybereality said: It's all about the community. I have fun with you people and I have fun with Godot. I used to use Unity for a bit and Unreal for a few years but the community is toxic. I don't care how the graphics look if I hate my life.

For me it was the size and the usefulness. It's tiny compared to Unity and Unreal and almost as good for most projects I do. Unreal basically ruined my computer. It was just crawling for everything, not just when I worked on games. I had to get rid of it and then do a complete reset to get back up to speed. Unity is a tad better, but not much. I thought the Unity community was basically pretty nice. My main complaint was they sealed the base game object so it couldn't be extended. I'm used to starting with a base and extending. Not that much, just one or two levels. I was actually disappointed with Gdscript when I started but then they introduced classes etc and it's great now.

cybereality

Well I built a new computer at the end of last year. Top of the line, I spent around $4,000. And I wanted to see how Unreal would work, so I loaded up a blank project. I actually timed it on my phone, cause I was expecting it to be fast. And it took 15 minutes. 15 minutes for an empty scene, no graphics. I proceeded to uninstall Unreal and I haven't used it since.

Erich_L

I hate to admit it but I've been learning unreal for the past two weeks because I'm close to graduation and don't feel like I can get a job without knowing unreal or unity. Unity seems too in the middle, I feel right learning from the two bests: unreal and godot. I also feel like a language like C++ is a rather important language to know well for a lot of different things. As a godot fan, I want to hate on unreal for being unreal, but I still think they've made some huge achievements .

Nerdzmasterz

If only we can match those graphics. :o

Maybe someday...

duane

Here's a little example of how dumb gdscript can be. Try to compare a variant, containing a boolean, with a string. The sensible thing to do would be return "not equal". Gdscript just throws up its hands. This from an engine that deliberately tries not to throw errors... most of the time.

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